Hungarian Grammar For Beginners

Verbal Nouns – Future Participle

The origins of this method reaches back to the old times of the Hungarian language. Originally, it was used to express future tense, but during the centuries it had lost its true function. Nowadays people use it when something is yet to be done. It has an adjectival or subjective function. English equivalent: to be + past participle. Formation:

az elolvasandó könyv – the book to be readMi a teendő? – What is to be done?
Az árú egy év után kidobandó. – The goods are to be thrown away after a year.
A leendő férjem gazdag. – My future husband is rich.